Epidemic dispersion of HIV and HCV in a population of co-infected Romanian injecting drug users

Simona Paraschiv; Leontina Banica; Ionelia Nicolae; Iulia Niculescu; Adrian Abagiu; Raluca Jipa; Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña; Marta Pingarilho; Emil Neaga; Kristof Theys; Pieter Libin; Dan Otelea; Ana Abecasis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185866

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Epidemic dispersion of HIV and HCV in a population of co-infected Romanian injecting drug users

Simona Paraschiv ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Paraschiv, Leontina Banica

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: mona_manaila@yahoo.com

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6707-3720

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Leontina Banica ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Paraschiv, Leontina Banica

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania
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Ionelia Nicolae,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania
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Iulia Niculescu,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Clinical Department, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania, SMZ Süd—Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital, 4. Med. Abteilung, Vienna, Austria
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Adrian Abagiu,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Department, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania
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Raluca Jipa,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Department, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania
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Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Molecular Biology and Immunology Department, Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC) and Basic Sciences Department, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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Marta Pingarilho,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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Emil Neaga,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania
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Kristof Theys,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium
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Pieter Libin,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium, Artificial Intelligence lab, Department of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Dan Otelea,

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Matei Bals’, Bucharest, Romania
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Ana Abecasis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium
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Epidemic dispersion of HIV and HCV in a population of co-infected Romanian injecting drug users

Simona Paraschiv,
Leontina Banica,
Ionelia Nicolae,
Iulia Niculescu,
Adrian Abagiu,
Raluca Jipa,
Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña,
Marta Pingarilho,
Emil Neaga,
Kristof Theys

Published: October 9, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185866

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